Thursday, October 29, 2009

Long Lost VHS

Every once in a while I stumble across Generation One items that I had no idea existed. This is one of those items. Sometime back when Rhino Home Video owned the rights to the Transformers, they apparently released a VHS copy of the three part Transformers pilot More Than Meets The Eye. Although the Rhino logo isn't on the box, this is the same style of art they used for later releases as well as the original font and logo.

I honestly couldn't tell you anything else about it as I don't own it, but I would imagine that this VHS is similar to the Heroes & Villains VHS releases which used the individual episodes with no bumpers and no 5.1 soundtrack. Rhino released twelve two episode VHS volumes of the Transformers cartoon from the 1980's from 1999 to 2001 which pulled episodes from all 98 episodes of the series run. They also released two special edition VHS/ DVD releases of The Ultimate Doom (Villains) and The Rebirth (Heroes). There was also another VHS which featured the two part episodes with the Dinobots. Finally, they also released VHS box sets of the complete first season and the first half of season two before they ceased production of VHS releases. However, this e-Bay auction was the first time I ever ran across this VHS. Nothing special, but a pretty neat piece.

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